All in all it sounds pretty positive & I hope to hear more of this sort of stuff. If the guy immediately went down the path of suing them (which is what happened with the Olympics site) I would think twice about his credibility. But trying to get some of the mainstream to pay attention to standards is great in principle.
Designing for IE only in this day and age is down right lazy and now that IE has been canned as a standalone browser its also pretty dumb. That 97% is going to start dropping over the next 12 months will probably only go to around 80-90% but still that's a lot of users. The other thing is that its really not very hard to get it right. Its funny that he went for Westpac though - I successfully use that site in Mozilla at least once or twice a week. Yes - their homepage nav is screwed, but the online banking section itself is pretty damn good. I know of heaps of other sites that are much worse. Olympic site stuff: "The importance of Web accessibility was highlighted in court to the Olympic movement two years ago after a law suit was successfully brought against Sydney organisers (SOCOG) for their site www.olympics.com. A private citizen succeeded in winning $20,000 (Aus) in damages, on 6 November, 2001, after a ruling that the Olympics portal caused "unjustifiable hardship" in failing to meet accessibility standards. " - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1868566.stm Cheers Mark ______________ Mark Stanton Web Production Gruden Pty Ltd Tel: 9956 6388 Mob: 0410 458 201 Fax: 9956 8433 http://www.gruden.com --- You are currently subscribed to cfaussie as: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] MX Downunder AsiaPac DevCon - http://mxdu.com/
